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April 2013

Monday, April 01, 2013

After nearly nine years of blogging here at Just Thinking, sometimes regularly, sometimes intermittently, it's time to close this blog and turn toward something new.

I'm grateful to each and every reader who has read this blog, made comments, shared a link, sent me an email, and offered friendship. Thank you so very much.

Here's the link to my website. This is where I'll be based from now on. I'm not sure what the new thing is yet that I'm turning toward but you'll hear about it there. I hope it has something to do with the eventual publishing of the manuscript I've been working on. I hope it has something to do with online contributions to some wonderful sites I've been discovering in recent years. Perhaps, just perhaps, it will involve starting a different very minimalist blog as part of this main website.

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“Far from my high school daydreams about the future, I am on a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread, for living rather than dying. I want to cast my net on the side of astonishment.... I want to find God at work in me and through me. I want livelihood.

Livelihood: the word gathers up and bundles together the simultaneous longings for meaning, satisfaction, and provision. In the fullest sense of the word, livelihood means the way of one’s life; it means the sustenance to make that way possible; it means both body and soul are fully alive thanks to what has been earned or received by grace. On one level we make our livelihood; on another level we keep our eyes open and find it.”

–Nancy J. Nordenson, Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure (Kalos Press)

By day I'm a medical writer. After hours I do another kind of work. Creative writing, spiritual writing, essaying. This blog arises from those after hours. I write about work/vocation, meaning, hope, imagination, faith, science, creativity/writing, books, and anything else I feel the impulse to write about. I hope these short posts provide camaraderie for your own creative and spiritual life.